Students practice identifying beginning sounds. In this phonics instructional activity, students review different beginning sounds and read a poem. Students then work together to identify the words in the poem with their particular...

Students participate in an activity to identify words with specific letter sounds or letter combinations. In this letter sound/letter combination lesson, students focus on three-letter sounds then identify words in a sound hunt...

Students practice identifying long vowels.  In this vowel lesson, students read a story and find long vowel words that fit their pattern. Students then sort their word under the correct long vowel pattern.

Young scholars practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy activity, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Young scholars then sound out the word from...

Students practice sounding out words. In this phonics lesson, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy.  Students read the word off the card and stretch it out.

Pupils practice reading. In this fluency building instructional activity, students participate in a relay race to quickly sound and read word cards. They work in small groups to accurately sound out and say three word cards before it is...

Students explore phonetics by participating in a letter combination activity with their class. In this word sound lesson, students identify the sound "wh" and discuss words where the sound is utilized. Students practice repeating words...

Students practice saying and reading words beginning with qu. In this phonics lesson, students review the sound that the letter combination qu creates.  Students play a pronunciation game to ensure their understanding of the letter...

Students practice reading words with the kn pattern.  In this phonics instructional activity, students review the sound kn makes.  Students then play a game to reinforce the correct use of the kn spelling pattern.

Students demonstrate how to pronounce the "ou" sound. In this sound fluency lesson, students review the letters that make the sound in the word "cloud" and then practice making the sound. Students identify the words on the board that...

Students say and spell vowel digraphs by playing a board game. In this vowel digraphs lesson plan, students make a single sound with 2 vowels.

A great language arts lesson plan designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of...

Students are introduced to skills to help them become better readers. With a partner, they use magazines to identify consonant pairs and participate in a game naming words that ends with consonants. As a class, they practice clapping...

Pupils write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They discuss...

First graders identify word families and demonstrate a variety of ballet moves. They listen to the book "Angelina on Stage," and observe and demonstrate three ballet moves. Students then match a family word with other rhyming words,...

Young scholars practice identification of rhyming words. Students compare/contrast pictures by identifying rhyming sounds in them. Young scholars place strips on the pictures. Students share comparisons with each other.

Learners explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They recite an e tongue twister and practice writing the letter e. They spell e words using Elkonin letter boxes and...

Students recognize the ea=/E/ correspondence in spoken and written words. They participate in a group letterbox lesson. In groups of two, they practice reading with each other, taking turns reading one page at a time, identifying the...

Second graders complete the first column of a KWL chart with information that they know about caterpillars. They listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while focusing on what caterpillars eat. They clap out...

In this sequencing worksheet, learners read a poem about a spider. Students cut out 6 rhyming word cards. They then cut out 2 picture cards and put them in order to show the story events.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze the "--ake" rhyming pattern by making a word slide. Students cut slits in the laminated word ending piece and slide the beginning consonants strip to make 12 new words.

In this rhyme worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme about the cat and the fiddle. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.

In this rhyme worksheet, students read a nursery rhyme about Little Jack Horner. Students also color in an illustration and cut out rhyming words from the story.

In this early childhood rhyming words worksheet, learners name the 10 objects pictured in the right and left column and draw lines between those pairs of objects whose names rhyme.